Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 15:34:06 Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Erich Dollansky < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Friday 24 February 2012 04:21:12 Peter Maloney wrote: > > > Am 23.02.2012 21:15, schrieb Mark Felder: > > > > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:25:01 -0600, Damien Fleuriot <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let me suggest this. > > > > Currently, we have on the disk normally two kernels. The current one and > > the last one. Why not add a third one called testing? > > > > Add then an entry into the boot menu that users can switch between the > > current kernel and a kernel they just installed for testing. > > > > Well, as you would want to test both kernel + userland its get a bit tricky > on ufs based system, as you have to setup several slices/partitions. For > ZFS its easier, as the only thing required would be a snapshot of clean > install, which the user then can just zfs recv, modify vfs.root.mountfrom > and so on. > /usr/local for the current system and /usr/localtest for the other system.
Of course, the same for /bin, /etc ... It is not that difficult. Or a script which renames the directories for the next start. Erich _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
